Two couples strike out in this episode of The Big Bang Theory. Unrelated to the title. Howard could work on his backbone, and Sheldon could give some of his away. I feel like they should trade. Amy switches her lab work over to Cal Science for a few months, bringing those adorable monkeys back into the picture. And, at first, she raises the potential for some workplace discrepancies. After all, she and Sheldon never spent so much time together at once; a reasonable concern. Don’t know of anyone that can tolerate spending so much time with Sheldon Cooper at once....

The ongoing theme for tonight’s Big Bang Theory episode: ruined childhoods.Unless you’re Raj and Stuart, in which case, ruined evenings. Amy missteps on Date Night with Sheldon by criticizing Raiders of the Lost Ark, claiming Indie had no true relevance to the plot line at all—the movie would have ended the same way regardless. Stunned, Sheldon sets out to ruin something of Amy’s childhood in return. Eye for an eye. I like this trend where Sheldon learns life lessons from his patient girlfriend. This episode, he realized he could vocalize his feelings, rather than, in Amy’s words, “seek revenge.” It’s...

And because I’m not a big bad Fox subscriber, it looks like I’m crashing Winston’s birthday instead of Elaine’s wedding. Though we do get a decent preview of her lovely…ah…adornments. Morning-after-Nick (see, getting better with the name thing) tries his hardest to impress Jess right off the bat—until her father shows up on their doorstep. Today of all days, no less. For Elaine’s wedding, no less. On Winston’s birthday, no less. While Jess spends the morning scrambling for her friends and co-workers, Nick and her father find themselves bonding into the afternoon; and panicking when he finally reveals he...

I decided, for this article, to change the channel for a brand new show: New Girl. New Girl, highly recommended and toted as the new How I Met Your Mother (except this would be, like, how-I-met-my-future-girlfriend-a-few-times-over), will air its season finale May 18. Which means I have to hop to catching up. I feel proud my readers can follow me into my new-show foray, full of ignorance and surprises and choking. It’s how I respond to jokes. Let’s see how I do. …I discovered right away the episode Virgins, aired April 30, probably wasn’t the best episode to review...

“Aww, it’s so cool when you use the word ‘cool’ wrong.” Leonard and Sheldon discover they can realize their childhood dream when they find the host of their favorite science show online, Professor Proton! You might even say he’s a positive role model. Ah I make myself laugh.They hire him for a day of re-enacting children’s science tricks in their apartment, expecting the gloriousness and grandeur they watched from their TV sets as kids. What they find, however (besides guest star Bob Newhart), is a forlorn retiree with no life direction and a rather stony melancholy over the science...